Improvement in tips for handles of children s carriages



H. W. WARNER.

Tips for Handles of fihildrelfs Carriages.

Patented March 24, 1874.

MPl/WU-l/FIOMIPl/IL 00.17. Kmssamn Means UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. WARNER, OF GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TIPS FOR HANDLES OF CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 149,014., dated March 24, 1874; application filed February 2, 1874. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WARREN Wait NER, of Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Tips for Handles of Childrens Carriages, &c., of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in certain improvements in metal tips for handles of childrens carriages, and similar purposes, whereby they may be more readily and securely attached to them, as hereinafter more fully explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved tip; Fig. 2, an end view of the same looking into it 5 Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of the tip, and Fig. 4 a transverse section of the tip and handle, showing the manner in which the tip is held in place when the handle does not fill it.

It has been customary, heretofore, to make the tips smooth on their inner surface and turn the ends of the articles to fit them. This necessitated turning the articles to a gage, and required a great deal of time and labor. It is also customary to turn the handles and similar articles in large quantities, which are kept on hand and used as wanted. They are thus likely to shrink or warp, and thus become too small to lit the tips, and are consequently rendered useless, together with a large number which are turned too small in the first place. These tips are generally held in place by means of small tacks or screws. When the wood shrinks these tacks or screws are loosened, and as the handles and tips are both turned smooth the tips are apt to turn and thus work them out. In this way many of the tips are lost off. The object of my invention is to obviate these difficulties.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the tip, which is provided on its interior surface with two or more ribs, 0. Even if the handle does not fill thewhole interior space of the tip, it may still be used and the tip securely held in place, the ribs 0 projecting inward a sufficient distance to come in contact with the sides of the handle and enter into or seat themselves in the wood, as shown in Fig. 4. If the handle iills the tip, the ribs 0 will enter and seat themselves in the wood their whole depth, but if the tip 'is not filled, the points only enter. The tips are made conical or tapering, and consequently wedge themselves more securely in place the further they are driven on, and as the ribs sink into the wood it is impossible for the tips to turn, and, therefore, they cannot work the screws or tacks with which they are fastened on out of place and thus lose the tip off.

By this arrangement I avoid the necessity of turning the articles to a gage, and thus save a great deal of time and labor, besides being enabled to fasten the tips more securely in place.

I am aware that hub-bands have been made with a rib or small projection to prevent them from turning, and, therefore, I do not claim such but Having described my invention, what I do claim is- The metallic tip A, provided with a series of internal ribs 0, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY WARREN WARNER. Witnesses:

J OHN H. SANnERsoN, HENRY BARBER. 

